CONTENTS -- Foreword by Warren Buffett -- Foreword by Joseph E. Murray -- Foreword by Geoffrey H. Sperber -- Preface -- Part One: Background -- Chapter 1. Background -- Chapter 2. Tsarist Russia -- Beginnings in Tsarist Russia -- Russian Expansion -- Chapter 3. The Pale of Settlement -- The Pale of Settlement -- Increasing Restrictions -- Chapter 4. Napoleonic Wars -- The Pale After the Congress of Vienna -- A Momentary Russian Thaw -- Chapter 5. Initiation of Pogroms -- Expansion of Pogroms -- The Pogrom Initiators -- Chapter 6. Jewish Emigration -- Russian Policy -- Increasing Pogroms -- Chapter 7. The Bolshevik Revolution -- Communist Takeover -- Improving Social Conditions -- Chapter 8. Emigration to the United States -- Emigration Trends -- Recent Population Trends -- Chapter 9. A New Century -- Chapter 10. Roots in Belarus -- Chapter 11. Emigration to Chicago -- Migration from Russia of Isadore Sarnatzky -- Settling Down in Chicago -- Folio 1 -- Chapter 12. Retail Store to Drugstores -- Drugstore Clientele -- Isadore's Retirement -- Chapter 13. Elementary Lessons -- Chapter 14. Growing up in Chicago -- Moving to the Southside -- Irish Catholics -- Jackson Park -- The Illinois Central -- Rise and Demise of the Movie Palace -- Chapter 15. Boy Scouts and on to High School -- Boy Scout Summer Camp -- Hyde Park High School -- Chapter 16. University Undergraduate Years (1929-1933) -- University of Chicago -- Kindling of Research Interests -- Chapter 17. On to Medical School and Beyond (1933-1937) -- Working While Attending Medical School -- First Two Years of Medical School -- Last Two Years of Medical School -- Medical Internship -- Chapter 18. University of Illinois (1937-1940) -- Applying to Dental School -- University of Illinois -- Research Beginnings -- Military Service -- Ship's Physician -- Chapter 19. Marriage to Rhoda E. Gerard.

Travel to Europe -- Depression Years -- A Career in Social Work -- Beginnings of Married Life -- From Chicago to Beverly Hills -- Part Two: A Career in Medicine and Research -- Chapter 20. Training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1940-1946) -- Residency in Oral and Plastic Surgery -- Assistantship in General Surgery -- Assistantship in General Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery -- The Vilray P. Blair Group -- Bernie's Years with the Vilray Blair Group -- Barnes Hospital -- Chapter 21. Life in St. Louis and Chicago -- Living in St. Louis During the War Years -- Returning to Chicago -- Chapter 22. Practice of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Chicago (1946-1956) -- Practicing Plastic Surgery in Chicago -- Some Noteworthy Surgery Cases -- Chapter 23. Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery (1946-1956) -- Development of the Graduate Program -- Research Awards in Plastic Surgery -- Temporomandibular Joint Problems -- Oral and Facial Cancer -- Long Distance Telephone Courses -- Ten years at the University of Illinois -- Folio 2 -- Chapter 24. The Move to California (1955) -- On to Los Angeles -- House Hunting -- Chapter 25. Personal Life in Beverly Hills -- North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills -- Gerard and Joan Sarnat -- The Benjamin Graham Era -- Life in Beverly Hills -- Life in Los Angeles -- Chapter 26. Foreign Travel -- Chapter 27. A Close Brush with Death -- Cancer of the Bowel: Surgery -- A Successful Recovery -- Chapter 28. Private Practice in Beverly Hills (1956-1991) -- Patient #1: Cleft lip and palate -- Patient #2: Battered Infant Syndrome -- Patient #3: De Cubitus Ulcer of the Buttock -- Patient #4: Dog Bite of Nose -- Chapter 29. Academia and Research (1956-Present) -- Academia -- Research -- Scientific Contributions -- Clinical Contributions -- Chapter 30. A Day in the Life of a Plastic Surgeon.

(A) Reconstructive Surgery: Cleft Lip -- (B) Aesthetic Surgery: Face/Neck Lift -- Chapter 31. A Day in the Life of a Biological Scientist -- The Four Stages in Bernard Sarnat's Research Career -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development -- 3. Mentor -- 4. Mentor again -- Research Experiments -- 1. Hibernation -- 2. Mandibular growth -- 3. Surgical removal of the mandibular condyle -- 4. Growth of the nasal bone and nasal septum -- 5. Growth of the turtle shell -- Chapter 32. A Career as Plastic Surgeon and Researcher -- Formative Years -- Clinical and Biological Research -- Some Closing Thoughts -- Chapter Notes -- Chronology -- Conferred Honors.